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Money: Fuels Your New Label
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Fund Your Label
How do new designers get funding to produce their first fashion lines?
You're overflowing with inspiration. Your mind's eye swims with designs, colors, and fabrics. You have a powerful creative vision and a business plan, too. You've got great people on your team. All that's left is to have your line produced. For a new fashion designer, the biggest obstacle to that happening is usually money and how to fund your label.
You read about tech startups getting millions in investor dollars before their product earns a cent. You know new designers who started fashion lines thanks to generous transfusions of cash from their families. Some people work in industries that attract investors. Others were lucky enough to be born into a pot of gold. But what about the rest of us? How does the average aspiring designer get the money needed to produce their first clothing line?
Tech is different. Technical innovations yield new products. Investors are attracted to market research data that supports a healthy return on investments in new technologies. New fashion companies don't tend to attract investors in the same way because there's little evidence available for how financially successful a new designer will be. While your designs are new, clothing has been around forever. Only a tiny percentage of apparel offers something disruptive to consumers that wasn't available before. The success of a fashion line rests with ephemeral, subjective tastes and the vagaries of timing – variables that are nearly impossible to project. And while a designer may have a successful debut collection, that has no bearing on future success. Most investors would prefer to hold a stake in an established $20 million label, as opposed to an unknown quantity such as a new label producing its first line. Additionally, investors want to see revenue and cash projections, which are difficult to produce due to the seasonal, cyclical nature of cash flow in the fashion business.
Whether you attract investors or not, strong cash flow is a must for getting your new line off the ground. And key to strong cash flow is forming trusting relationships with your manufacturers. Since an apparel collection is produced months before any revenue will be seen from sales, up-front capital is needed to start the production process. By making timely payments in the early stages of working with a factory, you form a foundation of trust that will pay dividends in the future. For a manufacturer, it's very risky to extend credit to a brand new company, so paying on time (and communicating promptly in the event of delays) early in your relationship goes a long way toward getting samples made at a discounted rate and negotiating timing of payments in the future.
Some banks and fashion funds will extend loans to designers that have an order from a reputable retailer. Before a new label has established a trusting relationship and credit with production partners, that up-front cash allows a line to get produced and shipped to stores.
Aside from loans, a common way for new designers to build the cash cushion needed to get their lines off the ground is ghost-working for larger brands. Yes, it's not much of a revelation. But gaining expertise while earning money and saving to fund one's enterprise is common for a reason: it works. It may take more time to build your savings account than to win the money all at once in the form of a prize or a large bank loan, but the skills, knowledge, and relationships formed while working for a major label will always be with you.
Friends and family are a major funding source for new designers. All the money you need might not come from one person, but in sharing your designs and business plan and with those around you, you open up untold possibilities for support. Each conversation is an opportunity for someone to be inspired and show their support in the form a financial contribution. (Bonus method to increase the odds of someone giving you money: ask. It's scary, but ask anyway!)
Self-funding may be slower and the money pot smaller than getting outside investments and loans. But what's sacrificed in terms of speed and amount of capital is made up for with independence and control. Without concerns for return on investment or lenders to repay, you have complete freedom to pursue your creative vision. By owning your label 100 percent, you take on the entirety of the risk, and reap all the rewards.
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In a message she wrote to fans via the same image sharing app, the 33-year-old star revealed that she's planning on setting up a fund raising activity as her way of giving back for their continuous love and support.
Actress Angel Locsin is happy to announce that she now has a whopping five million followers on Instagram as of Thursday, March 21.
"Thank you to all the 5 Million of you for the continuous love & support! Luv u guys," she said.
"Because we've reached this milestone, I am thinking maybe we can organize a fund raising activity to share the love to those who are in need. What do you guys think? :) A peso from each of us would go a long way :) #thoughts," she added.
On Twitter, Angel isn't any less popular with over 10.6 million followers, making her the third most followed Filipino account as of 2018 next to Vice Ganda and Anne Curtis.


The visiting weekend is this coming up soon, and we look forward to seeing you again. Can we stress that it is a family occasion, for parents' benefit, and should be limited to immediate family members? Pick-up time is at: 9.00am on Saturday March 9th. We ask that you return with your son or daughter by 3pm and depart by 4pm on Sunday March 10th.
Please not there will be some road closures for the 3 Peaks bike race on Sunday 10th March. These should only be on Sunday morning but please check Vicroads for details as it gets closer. I will endeavour to send out information on the closures as it comes to hand. Some families may wish to arrive and leave earlier due to the travel involved or family commitments. The school will be staffed from 1pm on Sunday.
The Alpine School experience is ultimately a very personal one for parents and guardians, students and families and each experience is slightly different. We thank you for being a part of our community. We look forward to seeing you on the visiting weekend and remember to check the Alpine Weather forecast and drive safely.
Welcome again to the community of the Alpine School Campus. Congratulations again on the achievement of being personally, as a team, as a family and as a school selected to participate in this Alpine School experience. The purpose of these letters is to provide you a perspective of the intended program here at the Alpine School. What your son or daughter experiences, and then of course what they may communicate to you, may vary! This is quite normal! We will not be writing about individuals, more about the experiences of the community as a whole.
Students are again this coming week heading out on their overnight expeditions, carrying their backpacks and all their alpine camping gear. We start locally with an overnight expedition, and after the visiting weekend, we head out on a more ambitious expedition. Please be reassured that all expedition routes are reviewed for safety and access and modifications made as deemed necessary, to ensure that the safety of your sons/daughters remains as paramount.
Parents/ Guardians visiting weekend is approaching and this time is specifically a weekend about you as a family and about your relationship to you son/daughter, and is an integral part of the whole Alpine School separation and reintegration process. Give them your undivided attention and take an interest in their experience here and their return and reintegration over the Summer period will be so much better for all of you. If you are not able to make the visiting weekend of Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10, or would like to talk to us about any of the matters raised, please do not hesitate to do so.


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Reese Witherspoon and Her Daughter are Mother Daughter Goals
Lydia Greene
Reese Witherspoon is the beloved star of Legally Blonde, Little Fires Everywhere, Big Little Lies, and many more. Along with being an accomplished actress, she has three children, Deacon, Tennessee and Ava. Reese Witherspoon and her 21-year-old daughter make the sweetest pair, and this post of two of them silly drunk on margaritas is too adorable.
Witherspoon has won multiple Oscars and an Emmy, and her many films and series are on HBO, Netflix and Amazon prime. As for her personal life, the celeb mostly keeps this out of the public eye, but we get the occasional glimpse from her Instagram posts.
A post shared by Reese Witherspoon (@reesewitherspoon)
Reese Witherspoon shares her son Deacon and daughter Ava with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, who was her co-star in Cruel Intentions. She now lives in Los Angeles with husband Jim Toth, with whom she has an eight-year-old son, Tennessee. Ava, Tennessee, and 17-year-old Deacon are a huge part of the Hollywood star's life, and she often speaks about how grateful she is to have them.
When speaking to Interview, she said the thought of having a lifelong relationship with her kids "makes her want to cry." She went on to say, "I never expected the kind of relationship that I have with them, but it's so rewarding to be able to have kids that you can process life with a little bit, and they help me understand the complexities of what it means to be a human now."
Margaritas for Everyone!
In the latest heartwarming pic from Reese Witherspoon's daughter Ava Phillippe, the two are grinning behind a kitchen counter, which has margarita supplies on it. Reese is playfully holding up half of a lime to her eye while Ava smiles excitedly.
A post shared by ava (@avaphillippe)
Ava's caption says "Margarita Anyone?" to which Reese comments "Margaritas for Everyone!" Fans are loving it, and the comments are full of enthusiasm, from "OMFG...so cute ...I can't ..I want a margarita ???"?????" to "Mother daughter goals."
Others comment on how similar the mother daughter duo are, saying "literal twins" and "No bc I didn't know who was who for a second." Many have called Ava Witherspoon's lookalike daughter because of how similar they look and how often they seem to be twinning in photos. Even in this pic I had to do a double take to figure out which one Reese was!
This couldn't have been more apparent than when the stars of Big Little Lies got together in New York City for its premiere. Reese Witherspoon brought her daughter on the red carpet, and no one could get enough of them. Ava is around the age that Reese was when she shot some of her first films, and no one can deny that Ava is a spitting image of Elle Woods.
The mother-daughter pair is as close as can be, and Ava's Mother's Day post described her mom as her "built-in best friend." On Ava's 21st birthday, Reese's post was just as sweet, saying "Wow! How is it possible that this little girl is now 21 years old? Happy Birthday to my sweet girl who has become the most incredible young woman."
The Morning Show star went on to say, "Her kindness, her compassion, and her huge heart never cease to amaze me," she added. "Ava, there aren't enough words to describe how proud I am of everything you've already accomplished. I cannot wait to see ALL the Good you will put into this world. I love you so much @avaphillippe"
Reese is also a fan of Ava's boyfriend Owen Mahoney, commenting on one of their latest selfies with a heart face emoji and "these two." Reese Witherspoon and her daughter really are mother daughter goals!

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Don't get me wrong, Christian music is the best and I have nothing against Chris Tomlin's music. However, I've been having issues where the songs won't appear on my iTunes and instead, I HAVE TO REPURCHASE IT?! seriously! They ripped me off!
This album is so awesome, worth the money! Great is our God is my favorite!


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Q: Use drawable multiple times but with different colours I have a selector for a toggle button checked and unchecked - is there a way that I can use a custom layer list with a shape and use different colours? I am adding them in at runtime but using XML as the design.
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_checked="true" android:drawable="@drawable/toggle_custom"/>
<item android:state_checked="false" android:drawable="@drawable/toggle_custom_off"/>
</selector>

And my toggle_custom and toggle_custom_off
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/mainColourOn">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle" />
</item>
<item android:bottom="10dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#E6FFFFFF"/>
    </shape>
</item>

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:id="@+id/mainColourOff">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle"/>
</item>
<item android:bottom="10dp">
    <shape android:shape="rectangle">
        <solid android:color="#FFF"/>
    </shape>
</item>

        LayerDrawable layerOn = (LayerDrawable) getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.toggle_custom, getTheme());

        LayerDrawable layerOff = (LayerDrawable) getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.toggle_custom_off, getTheme());

        GradientDrawable toggleOn = (GradientDrawable) layerOn.findDrawableByLayerId(R.id.mainColourOn);
        GradientDrawable toggleOff = (GradientDrawable) layerOff.findDrawableByLayerId(R.id.mainColourOff);

        int colour = persons.get(i).getColour();

        toggleOn.mutate();
        toggleOff.mutate();
        toggleOn.setColor(colour);
        toggleOff.setColor(colour);

So for example have one toggle that is using the colour red and another using blue using the same XML. Thanks

A: You can reuse the xml for the layer-list Drawable and create the StateListDrawable for each ToggleButton programmatically like this:
void setToggleButtonColor(ToggleButton tButton, int colour)
{
    LayerDrawable layerOn = (LayerDrawable) ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.toggle_custom);
    layerOn.mutate();
    LayerDrawable layerOff = (LayerDrawable) ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.toggle_custom_off);
    layerOff.mutate();
    Drawable toggleOn = layerOn.findDrawableByLayerId(R.id.mainColourOn);
    Drawable toggleOff = layerOff.findDrawableByLayerId(R.id.mainColourOff);

    toggleOn.setColorFilter(colour, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);
    toggleOff.setColorFilter(colour, PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY);

    StateListDrawable tbBackground = new StateListDrawable();

    tbBackground.addState(new int[]{android.R.attr.state_checked}, layerOn );
    tbBackground.addState(StateSet.WILD_CARD, layerOff);

    tButton.setBackgroundDrawable(tbBackground);

}

Let's test it with two ToggleButtons:
ToggleButton toggleButton1 = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.togglebutton1);
toggleButton1.setChecked(true);

ToggleButton toggleButton2 = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.togglebutton2);
toggleButton2.setChecked(true);

setToggleButtonColor(toggleButton1, ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.blue));
setToggleButtonColor(toggleButton2, ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.magenta));

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Countless women in Maryland enter correctional facilities while pregnant. Those women often endure humiliation, pain, and risk of being harmed from being shackled throughout their pregnancy during transport, labor, delivery, and recovery.
National correctional and medical associations oppose shackling pregnant women because it is unnecessary and harmful. Yet Maryland law does not require correctional staff to consider input from medical professionals when deciding whether to unshackle a pregnant woman, even during labor and delivery.
The law regarding the shackling of pregnant women needs to be clear and humane, and the practice must be prohibited during labor and delivery.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE PRACTICE?
_ Shackling pregnant women is dangerous and inhumane.
_ Major national correctional and medical associations oppose shackling pregnant women because it is unnecessary and harmful to a woman and her pregnancy.
_ The vast majority of female prisoners are non-violent offenders who pose a low security risk - particularly during labor and post-partum recovery.
WHAT WILL HB 027/SB 656 ACCOMPLISH?
_ Prohibits use of any physical restraint during labor and delivery.
_ Prohibits use of physical restraints in the 2nd or 3rd trimester of pregnancy in any context, absent an individualized determination of substantial flight risk or security circumstance that jeopardizes staff, the inmate or public safety.
_ Prohibits use of any leg or waist restraints for women in their 2nd or 3rd trimester of pregnancy and requires that any restraint used be the least restrictive possible.
_ Require that correctional staff remove restraints upon the request of a health professional.
_ Require that medical professionals decide when it is safe to return a woman to prison.
_ Applies to all prisons and local correctional facilities.
_ Require that each instance of physical restraint be recorded, retained for five years, and reported to Governor and the General Assembly.
This is Danielle's story of being shackled during her labor and delivery while a prisoner in Maryland.


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Verbs �• �Keith Porter-Snell
24 Preludes for Piano Left Hand
The Performer
The Composer
The Verbs
Stories about Verbs Archive
The (short) Story of Verbs
Act 1, Scene 1
Verbs as Music
A big day for us
If you are in San Francisco
Music for an Elegy
New from old; or the story of Tangle
To purchase Verbs
Kathleen Ryan Store: CD
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Amazon: CD or Downloads
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Verbs: Music Books
UK Music Blogger Frances Wilson, The Cross-Eyed Pianist
By skillfully switching between the high and low registers of the piano and utilising full textures and bright or unexpected harmonies, Ryan creates the illusion of two hands playing. Coupled with Keith's clean, lucid and sensitively articulated sound and the wonderfully echoey acoustic of Monkton Coombe School (where the album was recorded in May 2013), these preludes hark back to earlier antecedents by Debussy, Rachmaninov, Chopin and J S Bach in their variety and appeal, creating an album rich in contrasts. …
This interesting and appealing project is a celebration of left hand repertoire, a musical friendship, and the art of the Prelude and the miniature. Recommended.
Read full review here.
US Music Blogger Kathy Parsons, MainlyPiano.com
Bravo to Kathleen Ryan and Keith Porter-Snell for creating a truly one-of-a-kind project!
Tony Howell, Bath, England
[T]his really is programme music at its very best. The descriptive verbs are entirely apposite. Kathleen is such a tunesmith, which when allied to [Keith's] playing, has produced a winning combination.
« Music for an Elegy
Stories about Verbs
Kathleen Ryan; cross-posted from Life according to Piano
I came across something interesting (to me, at least) in my composition notebooks today: my first sketches & notes for Tangle, one of the preludes in Verbs. It's dated 5/24/08 — no wonder I was panicking about Verbs. Keith had to premiere all of Book 2, for which I had been commissioned by PMTNM & MTAC, in early November that year, and if I remember correctly, Tangle was only the second of the twelve to be written. Oops!
Tangle sketch
Anyway the top 2 staves show the basic tango pattern, in 2 versions of F# something. Or, in a kind of F# major and a kind of F# minor (there's a tonality clarification below). Most interesting to me are the words on the right side of the page:
two voices tangling
not too busy
floating melody above the tango bass
not long
As I remember it, I knew those things about the piece almost as soon as I settled on the verb tangle and the key F# minor and the tango bass. And then I proceeded to create the music that fit my criteria.
It is very odd how often having more "rules" makes it easier for me to compose. I'm no longer floating in a sea of charming ideas, I'm doing this one particular thing, which in this case was Tangle. I remember Tangle as coming together with ease, and I still think of it as one of my strongest pieces compositionally. Certainly the clarity of the process in creating this piece gave me the confidence to move forward in the other pieces I had been toying with for months.
The ending is the next music sketched below the 2 versions of the bass. Something forgotten, which actually explains much of the clarity of process: I knew from the beginning where exactly this music is heading, all I had to do was find its path there.
The other thing I find odd in my sketches is that so much is missing. Below the ending, I've started sketching an introduction. This version was rejected very almost immediately. On the facing page, there are the actual first 2 intro measures; measures 3-4, which move the music onto the C# augmented chord that acts as dominant throughout the prelude and sets up the final "wrong" notes, is not sketched anywhere. �One other motive is sketched, and then … nothing.
I remember that I was putting music into Sibelius simultaneously with sketching it on paper, but when I look at the lack of notes on the page in the sketchbook — in all the pieces, not just Tangle — it is very unsettling. As if somehow music ended up in Sibelius that I didn't have anything to do with. I look at the few notes sketched for nearly all the pieces and wonder: how did that turn into _________ piece? I would not be able to reconstruct the preludes from the bits I wrote down on paper.
But I might make up some interesting new music from them.
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posted 2019-09-04T02:06:52 in Case Study
Lipscomb Academy in Nashville has a first-year head football coach, and he's not just your average rookie coach. He's Trent Dilfer, who played 14 seasons in the NFL, led the Baltimore Ravens to a Super Bowl championship, and served as an analyst for ESPN.
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Home Holistic Emotional Anand: Movie Review
Anand: Movie Review
"It's not the years in your life, but the life in your years, that count." – Abraham Lincoln had said. The movie, Anand encapsulates this message as the character lives his last days with joy.
Anand ("Joy") is an award-winning Bollywood classic, made by legendary director Hrishikesh Mukherjee in 1971. It centers around Anand (played by superstar Rajesh Khanna), a young man suffering from advanced cancer.
Free-spirited cancer patient meets sombre doctor
Despite knowing fully well that he is going to die in a few months, Anand is ever-smiling and tries to make people around him happy, because he believes in making new friends and enjoying life to the fullest.
His story takes a turn when Anand meets a young doctor named Bhaskar Banerjee (played by another superstar Amitabh Bachchan).
In contrast to Anand's extroverted personality, Dr. Banerjee is sober, introspective and quite frustrated with life and the dark reality he sees around him, in society.
Dying Anand teaches Bhaskar to live
As their friendship develops, Anand introduces Bhaskar to a new way of looking at the world which, behind all the despair and suffering, is rich, diverse, full of colour and song.
Renowned writer and lyricist Gulzar has beautifully conveyed the message through the dialogues (translated from Hindi):
"Babu-moshai, life should be 'Big' not 'Long'. Let's enjoy life with laughter. If one stops living life in fear of death then what is its significance? Till I am alive, death is nothing and when I die, I am nothing. So what is there to fear? "
"Babumoshai" is a respectful Bengali term, but Anand uses it to convey his love and friendship for Bhaskar.
That is Anand's free-spirited nature. He does everything he loves, especially singing beautiful songs and making friends freely. Despite his advanced illness, Anand is always active, sprightly and mischievous! That is great to watch, in itself.
When the hospital staff asks him to rest he shoots back:
"I haven't come here for treatment, I'm here to enjoy my time with all of you."
Joy of living with Anand, sorrow of letting him go
As the story develops, even though Anand's illness becomes more serious, it also becomes less significant, for the rest of characters as well as for the viewers. Yet, the impending tragedy of time slipping away remains in the background … it is this juxtaposition that is captivating.
Dr. Banerjee feels inspired and helpless at the same time: he cannot imagine life without Anand.
Everyone gets so close and attached to Anand's joie-de-vivre and pranks that when his health starts to deteriorate, everyone around him breaks down. They all try to look for ways to save Anand's life, for his sake … and also for themselves.
One last, unforgettable scene is the 'voice recording' between Anand and Dr. Banerjee. The emotions and the powerful insights simply cannot be described in words.
I hope you will be as moved as I was, so I leave it to you, dear readers, to enjoy the movie yourselves and reflect on its message.
You can watch 'Anand' on YouTube.
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South Australia has population of over 1.7 million, which accounts for 7.14% of Australia population. According to Australia census, 49.3 percent of the South Australian population is male and 50.7 percent are female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up 1.9 percent of South Australia's population. Adelaide (the capital city of South Australia) has an estimated population of over 1.2 million people. South Australia has an area of 983,482 km². This accounts for 12.7 percent of Australia. It is the country's fourth largest state. The South Australian border is 3,185 km long.
Based on our research South Australia population will reach 1.731 million by the June 2019. The calculation is based on the average growth rate of 0.68% over last 8 years since 2011. We believe using the recent years' figures (see the table in next section) will make the estimation more accurate.
Population Growth of South Australia
Looking back last eight years of South Australia's population, the growth rate is very consistent ranging from 0.23% to 1.21%, adding around 4,000 to 20,000 people each year to the overall population. Last two years, the population growth declined thanks to high unemployment rate and people were moving to interstate for job opportunities. The population growth in South Australia is very slow in Australia compared to other states.
2011 1.64 million n/a
2012 1.65 million 0.61%
2014 1.688 million 1.08%
Demography of South Australia
The latest available Australian Bureau of Statistics' population estimates for local areas indicate that for 83% of South Australia's population are living in the Greater Adelaide Planning Region accounting.
Of the Local Government Areas within the Greater Adelaide Planning Region, Onkaparinga had the highest population, followed by Salisbury and Port Adelaide Enfield. Mount Gambier, Whyalla and Port Pirie had the highest populations of the Regional Local Government Areas.
The top five ancestries for people in South Australia are: English, Australian, Scottish, German and Irish. The top five languages (other than English) spoken in South Australia are: Italian, Greek, Mandarin, Vietnamese and Cantonese. The top six countries of birth for people in South Australia are: Australia, England, Italy, India, China and Scotland.
Population Density of South Australia
South Australia's density is 1.62 people per kilometer, which is ranking 6th most populated state in Australia. SA is one of the least densely populated states in the world.
Position State Population Density
1 Australian Capital Territory 151.49
2 Victoria 23.54
3 New South Wales 8.64
4 Tasmania 7.24
5 Queensland 2.50
6 South Australia 1.62
7 Western Australia 0.89
8 Northern Territory 0.16
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics , the main occupations of people living in South Australia are Professionals (19.6%), Clerical & administrative workers, Technicians & trades workers, Managers, Labourers, Community & personal service workers, Sales workers, Machinery operators & drivers.
The main industries people from South Australia work in are Health care and social assistance, Retail trade, Manufacturing, Education and training, Construction, Public administration and safety, Accommodation and food services, Professional (5%), scientific and technical services, Transport, postal and warehousing.
It is interesting to see Professional only accounts for 5% of the main industries people from South Australia work in but takes up 19.6% of the main occupations.
Facts About South Australia
South Australia is the only state has no convict origins.
Australian most famous cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman, lived in Adelaide with his family.
South Australia has a nick name as the 'Festival State' due to the number of festivals she hosts each year.
People living in Adelaide are sometimes known as 'crow eaters'.
South Australia's Cooper Pedy mine is the world's largest producer of opals.
The highest recorded temperature (50.7°C) in Australia was in 1960 in Oodnadatta in South Australia.
Lake Eyre, in the outback of South Australia, is the largest salt lake in the world. While it does flood it is normally dry. It has been the location for many attempts at breaking the world land-speed record.
South Australia the only state shares borders with all of the mainland states as well as the Northern Territory.
The following links provide data for this topic:
State Library of South Australia: www.slsa.sa.gov.au
South Australia: www.southaustralia.com


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He is referred to as the top Fuji artiste in the country today. He has been making money since his early years and he has several mansions in Lagos and also his home town in Ijebu.
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For Isenberg MBA grad Fran Hutchins '13, giving has always been central to her family's culture. When Fran was growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, her family endowed scholarships at the alma mater of her mother and father. Now Fran is honoring him with a scholarship of her own for Isenberg students. The $25,000 commitment also underscores her gratitude to Isenberg. And it embodies her determination to empower first generation college students and students from underrepresented populations. "I was one of very few students of color in Isenberg's MBA program," Hutchins recalls. "That's one among many underrepresented populations that the scholarship will help."
Although Fran has been giving to Isenberg since graduation, this year was a first. "This year, I decided to bring that giving to a different level after Isenberg approached me." Support for Isenberg, she says, is a worthy exception in her periodic giving to other institutions, which mostly targets politically focused advocacy groups. Fran is Deputy Director of the Equality Federation, a national organization and network that partners with state-based groups on behalf of LGBTQ political, economic, and social equality. As a large national network, the Equality Federation empowers local LGBTQ communities while adapting to their specific circumstances. To that end, it trains and partners with local and regional leaders in promoting LGBTQ community rights through initiatives in state legislatures and local governments.
"My Isenberg experience has transformed my career in advocacy from ground-level work to a national leadership role," Fran says. Those tools include data-driven management skills as well as leadership smarts—all relevant to Hutchins' work for the Equality Federation. "We operate in a big national network," she says. "Recently, we successfully updated our internal operating systems. I remember doing a case study at Isenberg with similar challenges." Through this experience and others, Hutchins has first-hand knowledge that business school skills empower advocacy groups, helping them to make the world a better place.
As an Isenberg student, Fran also discovered her aptitude for finance and accounting. "I enjoy doing budgets," she confesses. That has brought value to the Federation and an added bond with her accountant/CFO father whose history of giving she has emulated. "When I returned home with summer accounting assignments after my first year at Isenberg, he was super excited—both with the accounting and my success at Isenberg."
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Pastor surveilled after ministering to migrants sues US government
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Mar 24, 2022 • Matthew Cunningham-Cook
The Biden administration is expanding a Trump scheme that is forcing hundreds of thousands of seniors onto for-profit health plans.
A new Medicare privatization scheme developed under President Donald Trump and now being expanded under President Joe Biden is forcing hundreds of thousands of seniors onto new private Medicare plans without their consent.
The development represents a troubling new dimension in the fight by corporate interests to privatize Medicare, the federal health insurance program for people 65 or older. Medicare Advantage, which allows for-profit health insurers to offer privatized benefits through Medicare, already results in unexpected costs for routine procedures and wrongful denials of care. Private plans have cost Medicare an astonishing $143 billion since 2008, and are now driving some health insurers' record profits.
The new Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) program similarly adds a private-sector third party between patients and Medicare services. Medicare allows these intermediary companies to offer unique benefits, like gym membership coverage. But as for-profit operations ranging from private insurers to publicly traded companies to private equity firms, these intermediaries are incentivized to limit the care that patients receive, especially when they are very sick.
While Medicare Advantage patients choose to sign up for private insurance plans, patients are being enrolled in these DCE health care plans without their informed consent. As Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) noted in a January op-ed, "Seniors in traditional Medicare may be 'auto-aligned' to a DCE if any primary care physician they've visited in the past two years is affiliated with that DCE. That means Medicare automatically searches two years of seniors' claims history without their full consent to find any visits with a participating DCE provider as the basis for enrollment."
Among those who unexpectedly found themselves caught up in one of these new DCE plans is Suzanne Gordon, a policy analyst based in Richmond, California. Gordon spent her entire professional career studying the U.S. health care system and advocating for Medicare for All. As a firm opponent of privatization in Medicare, she has never signed up for a for-profit Medicare Advantage plan.
That's why she was so surprised when she got an email in January from her doctor at One Medical, a for-profit primary care practice on the West Coast backed by the private equity giant Carlyle Group. While the email message wasn't particularly clear, she eventually realized that she was being enrolled without her informed consent in a new private DCE plan run by Iora Health, a primary care provider One Medical purchased last year.
"I got the email, I clicked on it and began a signing process that didn't tell me what I was signing," said Gordon. "You sign, you click in, and they tell you that they want you to sign up for a DCE with Iora Health. I wrote back to my doc and said I won't do this… I felt that a line had been crossed."
Gordon, a health policy expert, was able to get out of the plan — but others have not been so lucky. Rep. Pramila Jayapal's (D-Wash.) office told The Lever that 350,000 seniors were in DCE plans as of January 2022 — none of whom elected to sign up voluntarily.
This latest Medicare privatization scheme was started under the leadership of a Trump official who has since launched his own "entrepreneurial firm focused on building and growing transformational health care companies," with support from private equity firms. Now, the effort is quietly being expanded by the Biden administration through its new ACO REACH program, under the direction of two former Obama administration officials who have revolved between jobs in government and the corporate health care industry.
The development means that even more of the country's most vulnerable will be at the mercy of corporate arbiters that they know little or nothing about.
"Seniors and people with disabilities are, without their consent or full knowledge, being put into a program that has as its center the profit of the investment community rather than the health of Medicare members," said Ed Weisbart, a physician who chairs the Missouri chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a doctors organization that advocates for single-payer health care. "The investment community has proven that they know how to work around the guardrails of any program that has been set up. They know how to do it."
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The DCE program was originally launched in April 2019 by Trump's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under the auspices of the CMS Innovation Center, known as CMMI.
CMMI was created under President Barack Obama's signature health care law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), to pilot new payment models in Medicare and Medicaid without going through the formal rulemaking process that requires public comment. As a result, the new DCE program, which assigns seniors to a privatized model without their consent, has never been subject to any public scrutiny whatsoever.
"All that DCEs do is privatize traditional Medicare," said Diane Archer, the CEO of Just Care USA, which works to fight Medicare privatization.
Meanwhile, Adam Boehler, who Trump tapped to run CMS' Innovation Center, has since formed his own firm, Rubicon Founders. The firm's website claims it will "architect transformational companies and are deliberate in creating the foundation necessary to lead an industry," but provides few details on how it will do so. Rubicon did not respond to a request for comment.
Boehler's firm launched with the backing of longtime private equity executive Annie Lamont, who is married to Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D), as well as support from the health care-focused private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS). WCAS is developing a series of primary care centers for Medicare Advantage patients with the help of Humana, a private health insurer that has also launched a DCE program.
For Archer, the evidence is clear: "Adam Boehler… launched this [DCE] program to enrich his friends in the private equity world."
"We Needed To Make Sure That CMS Continues This Journey"
Late last month, critics of DCEs say the Biden administration effectively expanded the DCE effort under a new name — the "ACO REACH" program.
The new program — which stands for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model — allows hospital-led managed care organizations to access the new Medicare privatization scheme, too. ACO REACH similarly assigns patients with little informed consent to for-profit plans that benefit health care profiteers and creates incentives to deny care.
The DCE and ACO REACH programs are being spearheaded in part by CMMI head Liz Fowler, a former Obama administration official who helped write Obama's signature health care act as the chief health counsel to former U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.). Earlier, she helped write the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, legislation that barred the government from negotiating lower prescription drug prices.
Fowler served as vice president of public policy for the health insurer Wellpoint, now part of Anthem, before moving to Baucus' office. She later became a health care aide in the Obama administration, before spending nearly seven years as a vice president for pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson.
Neither Anthem nor Johnson & Johnson are currently active in the DCE market. But considering other major insurers like Humana are pursuing DCE contracts, and that Anthem already offers Medicare Advantage plans, it is conceivable that these insurance giants could get into the business at some point in the future.
In a February 24 press call announcing ACO REACH, CMS Administrator Jonathan Blum said that the Biden administration had always been committed to continuing with the DCE program.
"We want to make sure that we see these programs as continuing to grow… we have had many conversations with the public and with stakeholders that started with the new CMS team coming on board," said Blum. "We have felt from the start that we needed to make sure that CMS continues this journey."
Blum served as the deputy administrator and later principal deputy administrator of CMS under Obama, before joining CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield as an executive vice president, according to Legistorm.
Fowler and Blum's boss, CMS administrator Chiquita Brooks-Lasure, is a former health care partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a lobbying firm that worked to launch Medicare Advantage plans as recently as 2020.
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips also played an integral role in reducing fines for nursing home violations in California by as much as 99.9 percent in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency declined requests for comment.
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Kip Sullivan, an attorney who is active with Physicians for a National Healthcare Program, said that the DCE program relies on ensuring that elderly or disabled patients don't have an informed choice about enrolling in the private health care plans.
"Seniors have been swept into DCEs without their knowledge," he said. "Many — probably most — beneficiaries are in traditional Medicare as opposed to Medicare Advantage because they did not want to be in a plan run by an insurer."
Sullivan pointed out that the publicly traded DCEs, like Oak Street Health, brag in investor filings that between 13 and 30 percent of the money they get from Medicare goes into profits. By comparison, according to Sullivan, traditional Medicare plans have overhead of just 2 percent.
"When Medicare passed in 1965, there was never an intention to enrich the insurance industry," he said. "But that's exactly what's happening."
Weisbart, from the Missouri chapter of PNHP, is especially concerned that the Medicare and Medicaid agency "does not need to get congressional consent, discussion or approval for any of these programs. They're able to do it on their own."
Under Trump, the agency even issued a waiver that exempts DCE programs from anti-kickback rules that normally prohibit doctors from entering their patients into such for-profit plans. As a result, doctors can be compensated for involuntarily entering their patients into DCE programs.
In recent months, advocates have been waging a full-court campaign against the DCE scheme. In January, 54 members of the House submitted a letter voicing similar concerns to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and CMS Administrator Brooks-Lasure.
What then, explains the Biden administration's recent decision to expand the program?
As always in our campaign finance system, money could play a role. In 2020, the leadership of DCE contractor Clover Health donated $500,000 to the main super PAC for Senate Democrats, while the company's financier Chamath Palihapitiya donated $750,000 to the same super PAC plus $250,000 to the Biden Victory Fund.
One Medical — which employed Suzanne Gordon's doctor and owns Iora Health, the company that tried to enroll her in a DCE -— is backed by the Carlyle Group, a prodigious donor to both parties. Biden enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner last year at the $30 million Nantucket home of Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein.
Bill Kadereit, the President of the National Retiree Legislative Network, said that the DCE program could usher in a dangerous new stage of Medicare privatization.
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10 Unique Spices
Spices can make or break a dish. I often find that I dislike dishes that are under-spiced, but rarely do I encounter an over-spiced dish.
I think you should feel free to go a little crazy with the spices in your food until you find combinations you really like.
I've included my 10 favorite, unique spices below. I think these are the best, unique spices around, not only for their flavor but for their health benefits.
I've also included one of my very favorite dishes that you can make with each of these spices.
Aleppo Pepper
Aleppo pepper (or Halaby pepper) is a Middle Eastern spice made from dried chili pepper that's crushed into flakes.
It's similar to an Ancho chili in terms of heat and has undertones of sweetness and a raisin-like flavor.
It's named after the Syrian city of Aleppo although it's also grown in Turkey. Good Aleppo pepper will have a certain oiliness to it, meaning the flakes are fresher.
This spice is native to India and when ground is a deep orange-yellow color. It was first used as a dye.
It's possibly the most popular spice on this list for medicinal purposes - it's been used for digestive issues and arthritis and is currently being researched for many other uses.
I've always thought Yotam Ottolenghi was a genius with vegetables - why not try his cauliflower fritters with turmeric? Bonus: these have lots of other great spices.
This star-shaped spice is actually obtained from unripe fruit, prevalent in China and Vietnam. Star anise is used for many medicinal purposes - especially respiratory tract illnesses.
We don't often think of spices in our desserts (unless it's spice cake), but I've found one of the most subtle and elegant dessert combinations is star anise and pear. Here's a great recipe from Epicurious.
Urfa Biber (Isot Pepper)
Urfa Biber (also known as Isot Pepper) is a crushed dried chili pepper. The spice gets its name from the region in Turkey it's grown in (Urfa) and the Turkish word for pepper (Biber).
It's typically described as having chocolate, raisin, and coffee flavors (smoky, sour, and sweet all in one). It has a little bit of heat as well.
Cardamom Pods
This spice is native to the Indian subcontinent, Bhutan, and Indonesia. It's a greenish, papery pod surrounding several small black seeds. Cardamom can be used for heartburn and IBS, among other things.
There are an extraordinary number of great recipes for cardamom pods including many cocktails. My recommendation is to try this easy, delicious mix of beets, cranberries, and cardamom pods from Tasting Table.
Sichuan Peppercorns
These peppercorns are an aromatic spice from the Sichuan region of China. Although they're called pepper, they have citrus notes and are not spicy or pungent like chili pepper and black peppercorns (although they do leave a tingly feeling in your mouth).
Sichuan peppercorns can be used in a variety of ways. They're often used in Szechuan Chinese cooking, Nepalese cooking, and Tibetan cooking. Use them in this Chinese Five Spice blend or in these Dan Dan Noodles.
This spice is originally from the Mediterranean, but it can grow near any coastline. The fennel bulb can be eaten, as well as its seeds. Fennel is high in antioxidants and is an anti-inflammatory.
I love an Italian bread soup and this Pappa al Pomodoro recipe from Bon Appetit calls for the lovely flavor of fennel seeds.
This is actually a blend of spices that includes peppercorns, nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaf, and cumin. It's often used in curries and pilafs across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, etc.
Garam masala is supposed to have a number of health benefits because it contains so many different spices.
My recommendation for a garam masala recipe would have to be Jaime Oliver's good old chicken tikka masala or our delicious chana masala.
This Middle Eastern spice is made from ground red berries. It's got a lovely tart flavor, which makes it a good substitute for citrus. It's also been used as a diuretic and for upset stomachs.
Sumac can go in so many dishes, but I absolutely love it on a fattoush salad - it gives it an extra kick. Here's a great recipe for fattoush with sumac. Or just throw a pinch of it on some hummus - yum!
Fenugreek is produced and used across Asia and North Africa and are most common in Indian dishes. Fenugreek is commonly used for stomach issues and has been used in a variety of medicines.
My recommendation for using fenugreek seeds is definitely my recipe for red lentil dal (super yum and makes enough to feed several people - half it if you're one or two people and not planning to freeze any!)
What are your favorite unique spices to use in your kitchen?
Posted on Published: February 11, 2016 - Last updated: January 4, 2023
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What a great post! It's always fun to learn new ways to use unexpected spices. I love the smell of star anise but never know what to do with it - though I always throw a few in when I'm making mulled cider ;)
Thanks, Megan! I love star anise as well - it's so beautiful!


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